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Job Description

Your Role

The Associate Director of Data Governance Practices and Learning is responsible for driving the successful adoption of data capabilities across the organization by ensuring consistency, reliability, and ease of use for data domains and data product squads. This role fosters a culture of continuous learning, enabling data-driven teams to implement governance effectively while improving user experience and operational efficiency.  

As the bridge between data capability authoring squads and those adopting these capabilities, this leader ensures alignment between governance policies and practical implementation, enhancing data usability for business users and the wider data community. Additionally, the role is accountable for ensuring data strategy outcomes are achieved through the effective implementation of published data capabilities and providing feedback on improvement areas to the Data Operating Council (DOC) for iterative enhancements. 

This role is critical in ensuring that data capabilities are successfully adopted, fostering a data-driven culture, and equipping teams with the necessary tools and knowledge to scale and innovate effectively. 

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Adoption Consistency & Reliability: Ensure that data capabilities are adopted in a consistent, reliable manner across all data domains and product squads. 

• Building a Learning Culture: Foster a culture of continuous learning within the organization, equipping teams with the knowledge to effectively use and scale data governance initiatives. 

• Connecting Data Strategy & Governance to Federated Implementation: Act as the bridge between data governance squads that define capabilities and the teams adopting them, ensuring smooth transitions and effective implementation. 

• Enhancing Data User Experience: Provide an optimal data experience to data product squads, business users, and the broader data community by improving accessibility and usability. 

• Addressing Adoption Challenges: Identify operational pain points and adoption challenges, implementing process improvements to enhance the adoption journey. 

• Managing Learning Documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive learning materials for all rolled-out data capabilities, ensuring clarity and accessibility. 

• Accelerating Data Learning & Adoption: Organize initiatives such as Hackathons, hands-on training sessions, and adoption accelerators to drive enthusiasm and engagement in data capability adoption. 

• Ensuring Business Value: Validate that rolled-out data capabilities are effectively solving business problems and delivering measurable value. 

• Enhancing End-User Experience: Continuously improve the end-user experience, ensuring that adopted data capabilities are user-friendly and provide maximum impact. 

• Training Data Product Squads: Develop and deliver training programs to upskill data product squads, ensuring they have the necessary expertise to leverage data capabilities effectively. 

• Driving Consistency in Practice: Ensure that data product owners and squads are following best practice